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nnx··on Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio
does this mean we could buy an ebook on Kindle and listen to it on Audible?
nnx··on Building the same app using various web frameworks
Would be interesting to compare Remix.run in the mix? Feels like an interesting in-between NextJS and SvelteKit.
nnx··on Using alternative browser engines in the European Union
I'm all for Apple opening up to other browser engines on iOS but at the same time I'm worrying that this is gonna end up in furthering Chrome as "the web" over time.

Especially considering iOS is far from having majority marketshare in EU compared to Android... this feels like forcing a minor player (iOS in EU) to help a major player (Chrome).

nnx··on Using alternative browser engines in the European Union
This disables JIT for JSC (JavaScriptCore) system-wide. Third party apps never had been able to JIT on iOS, no permission to write executable pages.
nnx··on The Mere Presence of One's Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017)
How about disabling notifications or even uninstalling apps that you feel abuse their notification powers?

An airline do that kind of crap, let them know and book another airline next time.

They all do the same kind of crap? Well, the apps are not required to ever fly, at least not yet.

I’m not sure why this has to be a govern me harder kind of thing…

nnx··on I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension
Interesting idea.

Do you intend to compress the vector storage in any way and do you intend to implement your own vector search algorithms or reuse some already optimized libraries like usearch?

nnx··on Should the stock market never close?
More like 24/5, open 24 hours on weekdays only.
nnx··on JavaScript native RPC added to Cloudflare workers
This is mindblowing. Perhaps the most elegant RPC system I’ve seen.
nnx··on My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2022)
Anyone using Freeform (the recently added iOS/macOS app) similarly?

It feels to me like it can be a powerful yet simple productivity helper.

nnx··on All my thoughts after 40 hours in the Vision Pro
ifixit's detailed analysis of the display's PPI/PPD basically said it so, the PPD for a good monitor is 90+ whereas Vision Pro tops at 34 PPD.

We're probably 3 to 4 generations away from having resolution equivalence for this use case.

nnx··on Apple Vision Pro – Why Monitor Replacement Is Ridiculous
iFixIt Vision Pro Teardown Part 2 [1], do confirm his guess was right. In fact they mentioned this article in their PPI/PPD analysis.

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/News/90409/vision-pro-teardown-part-2...?

nnx··on Show HN: Marimo – an open-source reactive notebook for Python
Very interesting project, a breeze of fresh air and welcome competition to Jupyter.

I guess it's still very early but the onboarding for Mario VSCode is not great at the moment, no idea how to actually start writing a Marimo notebook (no "Create: New Marimo notebook" option like Jupyter's).

Then I then tried clone the cookbook repo, and get "module not found" errors that are even less friendly than when it happens on Jupyter: have to figure out which cell the error actually comes from to even know which module is missing.

nnx··on The Seneca Effect: Growth is slow but collapse is rapid (2017) [pdf]
> I'm doing everything I can to speed the collapse of a broken system

How?

nnx··on Benchmarking 20 programming languages on N-queens and matrix multiplication
Nice to see Go performing well. Would be interesting to see the results with PGO enabled.
nnx··on Show HN: NowDo – MacOS todo app for procrastinators
I edited my original message probably right while you were posting this reply.

Main concern with the window it not so much that it takes too much space, but that it "exists" in the task switcher, which can be distracting when Cmd-Tab'ing. Without going full menu bar way, perhaps a way to make it "transparent" to task switcher could help this - in fact maybe a mix between window (for showing current task) and menubar (for actions)

nnx··on Show HN: NowDo – MacOS todo app for procrastinators
Nice concept to keep it always on top! Would it be possible to have the current task show in the menu bar instead? would be even less obstrusive but still "always on top"

edit: would also help not having it show in the task switcher, now it sort of annoying to have it show up when Cmd-Tab'bing... while doing the task of course ;)

nnx··on Cloudflare Gen 12 Server: Bigger, Better, Cooler in a 2U1N Form Factor
> We first take into account ambient room temperature, which we assume to be 40° C (the maximum expected temperature under normal conditions).

I'm really surprised by this, I always thought typical datacenters were kept at low temperatures, like below 20C.

nnx··on Amazon EFS now supports up to 250k IOPS per file system
I was positively surprised by EFS a while back, great performance for a good price as long as you didn't store a lot (expensive $0.30/GB storage)

Didn't notice they moved to a new "Elastic Throughput" pricing, the old one being "Legacy"... it now charges $0.03/GB reads and $0.06/GB writes on top of the same $0.30/GB storage, terrible pricing.

nnx··on Botlib: C Telegram bot framework
But then it's hard to imagine much better than the existing Telebot library, which is a very elegant and idiomatic Go.

https://github.com/tucnak/telebot

nnx··on The Bitter Reality of Ebooks and the Kindle Model
I wonder if NFTs could be a solution to ensure interoperability and resale value of ebooks. No DRM neeeded, which are useless anyway since it's easy to download any book online, and it's all about the legal ownership title (the NFT) and possibly exclusive benefits for holding one (eg. access to author's community or events).
nnx··on Cloudflare updates pricing to not charge for I/O idle time in Workers
It seems like a win for most use cases, however it's a major setback for cpu-heavy use cases too:

- the 5$/month subscription only includes 30 million milliseconds when it was previously including 500 million (10 million invocations of up to 50ms cpu time each)

- for longer-running workers, the cost goes up 13x (!!!) to $0.072/hour for CPU time compared to $0.0056/hour in previous Unbound plan (advertised as GB-sec but each worker had 128MB so 1/8th)

nnx··on The$109T global stock market in one chart
I'm surprised Japan's stock market is so small comparatively.
nnx··on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
I would have much preferred getting one more USB-C port on recent Macbooks instead of the MagSafe revival.
nnx··on Deno vs. Bun vs. Node.js: A feature comparison
One under-advertised unique feature of Bun is that it supports proper tail calls, thanks to the JavascriptCore runtime.

Both Node and Deno, using V8, do not support those so some (functional) algos are harder to express there.

nnx··on NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild
It’s interesting that latest Safari TP (r178) somehow crashes on macOS Ventura, with or without the patch, when reading HN comments on this specific article.

Is there a honeypot in a comment on this page? /paranoid

nnx··on AWS Icon Quiz
AWS should add this to their Certifications offering.
nnx··on Fomos: Experimental OS, built with Rust
What’s the difference in practice compared to every other OS where app is just a “int main() { … }” function?
nnx··on Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reverse thrust
Similar question: why would you blow up your own multi-billion pipeline, rather than just tell the operators "turn off the valves" ?
nnx··on Meta blocking news links in Canada
"make this mistake a lot assuming that being in the EU means I’m subject to GDPR"

Being in the EU means you are subject to GDPR, regardless of your citizenship.

nnx··on Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA (2022)
It's been years that Google search result pages do not link directly to content, but goes through a google.com "redirect" url, so this use case could still work.
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